Forestry Practices

• B.C.’s wildfire crisis was forecast, but it arrived decades sooner than expected

  The warming and drying trend that began in the mid-2000s coincided with pine beetle outbreaks that left swaths of B.C.'s forests dead, dry, brittle and ripe for wildfire.

  Fire

  Sep 11, 2023
  
• Grand Forks flood victims launch proposed lawsuit against province, timber companies

  Interfor, the company with the largest share of logging rights in the region, says other factors were to blame for flooding that swamped Grand Forks in 2018.

  Sep 15, 2020
  
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• Nova Scotia to lower clear-cutting on Crown lands, minister says

  In the report, University of King's College president Bill Lahey said forest practices should be guided by a new paradigm called "ecological forestry" which treats forests "first and foremost" as ecosystems.

  Canada

  Dec 3, 2018
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• Review of Nova Scotia forestry practices given two-month extension

  The review headed by University of King's College president Bill Lahey was originally due next Feb. 28, but is now expected to be completed by the end of April.

  Environment

  Feb 21, 2018